Munich (München), Germany

Language and Literary Studies

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften

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Language and Literary Studies at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich

Language: German Studies in German
University website: www.lmu.de
degree: Dr. phil.

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Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
Language
Language is fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, The Poet.
Language
No jobs, no people. No people, no Gaeltacht. No Gaeltacht, no language.
Attributed to Tom O'Donnell [4]
Language
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (5.6)
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